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How to Connect Devices to Your Network with Power Outlets

6 Responses (Add) | Sunday, February 15th, 2009 at 8:42am


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The PowerNet 200 from the folks at Monster is geared towards those of you who have a house that may not have existing cabling for networking. It’s also perfect if you need a network port in a place where there isn’t one. This is a starter kit for Ethernet anywhere! The PowerNet 200 brings a high speed Ethernet connection to any room in your home. It instantly turns your home’s existing electrical wiring into a high speed whole-home network.

You plug one of the units into the wall near where your hub is. Plug the other unit in anywhere else in your house. Then you can network whatever you plug into it. Each adapter has two grounded outlets in it, and the Ethernet port connections. This is a great solution for streaming HD movies, or playing multiplayer games that demand a high speec connection – without the lag time. Sure, you could use WiFi, but it can keep you waiting when you want to quickly download a movie. It’s also too slow to play the online action games, or to stream a movie to another room in your house.

The PowerNet 200 maintains high speeds to even the room in your house that’s the farthest away from your office. It uses PLC Clean Power filtering, so that it reduces noise and interference on your electrical lines that is caused by appliances and electronics. This improves network speed, and lets the PowerNet work where other power line products usually won’t.

The Monster PowerNet 200 is the easy, fast solution for high speed networking and internet access virtually anywhere in your home.

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6 Comments

Steve

February 15th, 2009
at 1:30pm

And because its from Monster, its going to cost you $400 for the starter set.

Zzoren

February 15th, 2009
at 6:01pm

I’ve been using a powerline kit for about a year now. I don’t know how it works and I don’t care… but it works like a charm.

David Egan

February 16th, 2009
at 10:24am

I have a thing like that it is from a different band though. But i still really like it. IT is awesome. They are faster then a wifi connection . That is better then mine. I really it. They are awesome.

yfourk

February 20th, 2009
at 10:16am

Thanks Chris. I will try to use these.

Eddie Ringle

February 20th, 2009
at 10:30am

I bought a Netgear 200Mbps kit awhile back, works great, although there are a few things you want to look out for.

For example, if you will be going the entire stretch of the house like I have to do (our office and my bedroom are on opposite sides of the house) then you may run into some connection difficulties. As long as your house’s wiring is relatively modern (I’m not so quite sure ours is, our house is 40-some years old) then you shouldn’t really have a problem. Just recently I started getting dropped connections. I solved this by moving to the outlet on the other wall of my bedroom (I had a spare long ethernet cable laying around).
The other thing you want to look out for are the things plugged into the same circuit. For example, the reason why just now I started getting faulty connections could be because we brought in some new appliance or electronic device that adds to the interference on that circuit.

Really, you shouldn’t have any problems with it, because I’m sure you live in a much newer house than I. (And you don’t need that connection to span the length of the house!)

Ryan

February 20th, 2009
at 1:56pm

Wow 400$ that’s a lot I blieve the System is called eop Ethernet over power

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